Lurie purchased the Philadelphia Eagles in 1994 for $195 million, then a record amount for a franchise. It has proven a good investment, and Lurie is generally regarded as one of the best owners in pro sports. Last year, with a Super Bowl win, was an especially good year. Lurie, of Wynnewood, moved up more than 50 spots in Forbes\u2019 annual rankings, to #191, with a net worth of $7.6 billion.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not the only sports team owner on the list, but the list does reflect the spectrum of ways to megawealth. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia\u2019s other billionaire power players<\/p>\n
The region\u2019s richest billionaire remains the secretive Jeffrey Yass<\/strong>, co-founder of the Wall Street trading firm Susquehanna International Group. Yass\u2019s fortune has soared, reaching about $65.7 billion \u2014 making him the wealthiest person in Pennsylvania and among the nation\u2019s top 20 richest people (19th, to be exact). Yass, of Haverford, benefited from his company being an early investor in TikTok parent Bytedance.<\/p>\n Other notable Philadelphia-area billionaires include:<\/p>\n Industries and impact<\/p>\n Philadelphia\u2019s billionaires have built fortunes across a range of sectors: trading and investments (Yass, Dantchik), retail (Rubin), food (Mars), sports ownership (Lurie, Middleton), and real estate (Morgan). Their influence extends far beyond wealth \u2014 they are also philanthropists, civic leaders, and crucial players in the region\u2019s ongoing economic evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Lurie, step right up. That was the takeaway from the recently released Forbes 400 list for 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,64,44890,119445,53816,119446,6459,1448,2830,1311,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-218917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-jeffrey-lurie","11":"tag-jeffrey-yass","12":"tag-john-middleton","13":"tag-michael-rubin","14":"tag-money","15":"tag-pa","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115187268072033347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/susquehannainternational-balacynwd-jeffreyyass.jpg\")
This is the headquarters of Susquehanna International Group in Bala Cynwyd. (Google Street View)<\/p>\n\n